While I wasn't intending to be an active participant, I did end up talking about a couple of things near and dear to my heart... IBM Redbooks, and my role as PM for the User Experience Lab at IBM Connect in January. Those two things are about the least interesting parts of the podcast. The guys talked about how the wikis started, talked about some of the latest changes we've made, and got into some technical details, too (some of which I don't pretend to understand, since I'm only what I fondly call "nerd-adjacent").

Bruce and Julian make recording their Taking Notes Podcasts fun, and I hope you find it as interesting as we did. I'm not really a competetive person, but I couldn't help feeling a sense of pride and doing a little happy dance when Bruce informed me this morning that our episode of the Taking Notes Podcast broke their download record! 2,600 downloads in 3 days! Can I get a "heck yah!"?

Getting Started with Your Web Experience is a collection of tutorials for IBM WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager. Two levels of tutorials guide users from basic to more complex information. Each tutorial has a Next steps topic to guide the user to the next level of information.

Administrators and Developers

The tutorials are designed and developed for new administrators and developers. Unique terms are explained, concepts are presented visually, and procedures are simple and prescriptive. Currently the primary audience is administrators that are new to IBM WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager. However, the site is designed for growth and content is planned for other roles and products.

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Summary:This
article introduces how to use the Global Metrics and Community Metrics
tools in IBM Connections 4. The Global Metrics tool helps you monitor
how people interact with Connections applications. You can view usage
data, filter metrics by applications or time period, and view metrics in
a chart or table format. The Community Metrics tool helps Community
owners monitor adoption and Community vitality.

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Summary: The goal of this white paper is to explain the various administration and
configuration tools offered by IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0. Learn about which tool to use for
which task and about the new capabilities of WebSphere Portal 8.0, and understand
differences from previous versions of WebSphere Portal. We take you through exercises for
each tool so you can learn hands-on how to use them.

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promote your articles. In addition, the Everyone Writes program
participates in theIBM developerWorks Author Achievement Recognition Program,
which "formally acknowledges the publishing achievements of prolific
developerWorks authors, and celebrates our common commitment to
knowledge sharing." Visit the Web site to learn more about getting
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Summary: Learn how to use the IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and WebSphere
Portal Server (WPS) migration framework to quickly and easily move WAS and WPS on z/OS
from WPS v6.1.5 on WAS v7.0 to WPS 8.0 on WAS v8.0. This white paper explains the steps
required to migrate a multiple cluster and maintain 24x7 WebSphere Portal availability.

About the Everyone Writes program: The
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Summary: Among the new features in IBM Connections 4.0 is the Mail-in feature or, as we call it in this article, ReplyTo, which allows you to make new posts to Forums by replying to an email notification. There are a number of configuration steps that must be performed to enable this feature, both on the WebSphere Portal server and on the mail server being used. This article describes how the ReplyTo feature works and the steps required to enable it successfully.

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